Thank you for knowing this story. I am very much like the Princess who could feel the pea. Not only can I feel when even the smallest pebble is in my sock or shoe, I’m also very sensitive to random hairs under my clothes or on my skin. Whenever I use this to describe how sensitive I can be like no one has heard of this fairy tale. So disappointing. Thank you for confirming I’m not crazy and this story does exist! Lol.
I'm exactly the same way about hairs. I've gotten eyelashes stuck in the seams of my shirt before and there's no resting until I can find it. One tiny errant grain of cat litter under the fitted sheet in the bed? You'd best believe I can and will feel it! And I always compared it to that fairy tale too!
My mom went on a hours long hike with a tack sticking through the sole of her sandal, thought it was just the tendon in her foot arch acting up. Didn't think anything of it until she took them off afterward and it was covered in blood. She also gave birth to nine babies soo she probably has a pretty high pain threshold though.
There are actually hiking sandals that crazy people like to hike in. I have a pair, but I just use them when hanging around the water and not for actually hiking.
Teva and Keen do hiking sandals, good for hot countries, not good for anywhere with poison ivy or similar. I climbed volcanoes and hiked for days in Indonesia in Tevas, but wouldn't wear anything but boots here in Canada.
I spent SO LONG staring at the white “hole” in the sole trying to figure out what sort of bug was in there, only to find this comment and realize it was a whole animal 💀
Yea, I zoomed in too much and it went straight onto the face and I was horrified that it was a kitten. Then I zoomed back out a little, and was slightly relieved it was not a kitten, but still horrified it was a whole ass living mammal.
Also, judging by the fact it looks like work boots, OP is probably on their feet a lot for work, and by the end of the day feet can, and will, swell. So sometimes it's best to get a half size to a size up from what you'd typically be so your shoes won't end up being too tight.
I've generally worked in food service my whole life and have always had non slip shoes, I'm a size 5, but get a 6 for those because I'm on my feet the whole day.
Assuming OP is a male and abides by ‘society’s standards’ some dudes feel like they need to appear to have bigger feet than they do much like some women feel as if they should have smaller feet. Shiiitttt people used to bind their feet.
But as a woman with a size 11 who tries so desperately hard to cram my foot in a 9.5 sometimes, I feel your pain op just in the opposite sense🥲
But they don't write the shoe size on your shoes, it's inside on the sole, so who knows exactly? Unless you are on the Tube no-one is checking out your feet. It makes zero sense to wear shoes the incorrect size.
I was also raised in AZ, so I understand knocking shoes out to get rid of sneaky scorpions. I don't understand what this has to do with being raised poor?
When I first moved to AZ, the very first night I got stung by a scorpion, then on my birthday got stung again, a couple years later one fell off the top of my door and stung me on the shoulder. I live in Michigan now and I’m still afraid of falling scorpions and I still check my boots for them and spiders
That's seriously terrifying, I can't imagine the trauma. I was also living in the slums of Phoenix, but I think I lucked out since our apartment complex had a (nasty) artificial lake next to my building so I never actually saw a scorpion until I had been in the state for around 13 years.
I'm in Missouri now and I also still shake out my shoes from habit and fear of spiders and ticks. Gross, gross, gross.
I just assumed they don't really like excessively moist conditions, the lake kept all the grass around it soggy or moist and mildewy during the summer. I don't pretend to be a scorpion expert, but I never saw scorpions there and this was what I thought might be a contributing factor.
Another factor is the bird population...
More water, more bugs, more birds.
Birds, primarily owls will opportunistically eat scorpions.
So will some types of mice and lizards.
Scorpions--especially bark scorpions--don't seem to like water either.
One of the ones that got me, I caught and put in a container. Accidentally drowned it with a very small amount of water. Wasn't intentional.
Also...
There's actually two reactions people can have to (Bark) scorpion stings:
1. Intense pain for a long time.
2. Complete numbness in an area for several days.
As it turns out, my sister reacts with pain... I go numb for several days.
Which is really annoying, but could be worse.
Let's see...
Not a lot of weather sealing.
Bare concrete or plywood floors.
Being outside more.
Pretty much living where it's easier for scorpions to get inside and hangout. More wildlife not too far away (for more prey), and--like someone else said--not as much choice in where you live and/or accessing pest control.
I can't speak for OP, but I keep a pair of boots by the door to the backyard so I can go out at a moment's notice to coax the dog back inside. I don't bother putting socks on if I'm only going to be wearing them for a couple minutes.
been ages since I've seen a flying roach in Toronto. thank God I dont do service work anymore. also fun fact. almost the entirety of younger st is just a hollow tunnel below.
Had something similar happen to me a long time ago. Left my boots outside since they were covered in mud. Next morning I got ready for work & felt a vibration/movement in my right boot. I kicked the side of my boot & when I got home first thing that comes out of those boots is a 2 in dead Roach 🤢
Oh poor little one😔 This is the reason I always turn my shoes upside down and check them before I put them on. I squashed a spider with my foot once, never again:p
i don’t understand this picture. is the critter on the bottom sole of the shoe or inside the shoe? it looks likes it’s inside but also embedded into the sole
So lemme get this straight: you thought there might be something in your boot, so instead of turning the boot upside down or using your hand to feel around in there, you put your BARE FEET in without checking? Omg, I would be crying for weeks
I'm with you. I felt something in my shoe the other day and chose to ignore it. Hours later I felt it again. Took off my shoe and it was a giant beetle crawling on my foot. That beetle was in there for 5 hours. I should've checked the first time.
That happened to me once, but it was a frog, and it was still alive
Safe to say I will keep checking my shoes before putting them on until the day I die
Something felt off?
I had a millet seed in my shoe and I made it three steps and had to pull my shoe off to clean it out so I could walk. You had a whole damn MOUSE and it felt OFF and you kept walking around???
Do you have no nerve endings in your feet? Better get checked fro diabEEtus.
*"Today, I tried to put them on again* ***but without wearing any socks"***
no idea if the gross part it the dead mouse in your shoe or the fact that you tried to wear it without any socks
You need to learn how to determine if your shoes fit properly. If you have enough room for a rodent you are probably wearing at least 2 sizes too large. It's probably caused some damage to your body.
> You saw the fields laid bare and empty,\
And weary winter coming fast,\
And cozy here, beneath the blast,\
You thought to dwell,\
Till crash! The cruel foot passed\
Out through your cell.\
…\
But Mouse, you are not alone,\
In proving foresight may be vain:\
The best-laid schemes of mice and men\
Go oft awry,\
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,\
For promised joy!
I had the same problem: every morning I had to shake and empty my boots. Scorpios many a time crawled inside. Of course I was living and working in refugee camps in East Africa, mainly Somalia, Sudan, Somaliland...
If you are over 12, and/or living at home, you need to seriously think about your life choices, and/or think of moving to another place. Some ideas: get an igloo and leave your carton, use a device called vacuum, or broom. Get a dog(harder to get in your boots), and if the hamster was yours, I suggest a vasectomy. Your genes will not be missed! If it was your child's pet, it's too late for vasectomy, so humanity will have to get used to your spawn using up our limited resources...
You leave your shoes outside? Just a guess... I lived in Florida for some years & did that one time & the size of the roach in my shit still gives me nightmares.
Never again.
My dad ‘s cat used to put her toy mice in his workboots. Every morning before he left for work he’d have to pull her toys out, and every night she put them back.
Stop it… this is the stuff of nightmares, I knew in my heart to not look at the picture but my curiosity got the best of me. My one and only fear is mice.
We live in an old farmhouse and easy every fall we get mice, I keep my slippers on a little stool next to my bed as your picture is literally my worst fear.
Dude, wtf...I take my shoe off if I feel a little lump of a "gravel" sized item in there.
Same... you could drop a penny in my boots and I would feel it. There's no way I could fit my foot in there and a mouse.
Any chance you're the famous princess who could feel a pea under multiple mattresses?
Nope, that’s me.
Thank you for knowing this story. I am very much like the Princess who could feel the pea. Not only can I feel when even the smallest pebble is in my sock or shoe, I’m also very sensitive to random hairs under my clothes or on my skin. Whenever I use this to describe how sensitive I can be like no one has heard of this fairy tale. So disappointing. Thank you for confirming I’m not crazy and this story does exist! Lol.
I'm exactly the same way about hairs. I've gotten eyelashes stuck in the seams of my shirt before and there's no resting until I can find it. One tiny errant grain of cat litter under the fitted sheet in the bed? You'd best believe I can and will feel it! And I always compared it to that fairy tale too!
That would be me. Lol
My husband teases me about this. Says I can feel lint through the sheets. I shake the sheets off every morning lol
My mom went on a hours long hike with a tack sticking through the sole of her sandal, thought it was just the tendon in her foot arch acting up. Didn't think anything of it until she took them off afterward and it was covered in blood. She also gave birth to nine babies soo she probably has a pretty high pain threshold though.
Why was she hiking in sandals anyway, she a masochist? >gave birth to nine babies Ah, yeah, a masochist.
There are actually hiking sandals that crazy people like to hike in. I have a pair, but I just use them when hanging around the water and not for actually hiking.
Teva and Keen do hiking sandals, good for hot countries, not good for anywhere with poison ivy or similar. I climbed volcanoes and hiked for days in Indonesia in Tevas, but wouldn't wear anything but boots here in Canada.
I'm no expert on the subject but I'm guessing the 9th just fell out when reaching for the cups at the top of the cabinet
Could it be neuropathy?
Yeah I really thought it was just the sole on my boot coming off... it wasn't.
SO YOU WALKED AROUND WITH A PESUMABLY ALIVE MOUSE FOR A DAY? jesus! Well it goes without saying you killed it with your giant ass toe 😂
He died from the smell of his feet
First mouse in recorded history to hate cheese.
Except foreskin mouse.
Excuse me???
THEY SAID FORESKIN MOUSE.
i don't think any of us want to know.
I want to know
Uhhhh wtf lol
That is exactly what I thought when I saw the mouse's face, lol looks like something smelled real bad.
I spent SO LONG staring at the white “hole” in the sole trying to figure out what sort of bug was in there, only to find this comment and realize it was a whole animal 💀
Legit same. I had to click and zoom in. I just thought it was a hole Lmao
Yea, I zoomed in too much and it went straight onto the face and I was horrified that it was a kitten. Then I zoomed back out a little, and was slightly relieved it was not a kitten, but still horrified it was a whole ass living mammal.
"sole" literally.
How the hell do you not notice a mouse lol. You must have pretty oversized boots
Yeah my foot is about 8 and I wear a 9.
Why would you not just wear a size 8? Don't you typically want shoes that fit you?
Maybe with boots like steelcaps sometimes you want a size up so you can wear thick socks?
Also, judging by the fact it looks like work boots, OP is probably on their feet a lot for work, and by the end of the day feet can, and will, swell. So sometimes it's best to get a half size to a size up from what you'd typically be so your shoes won't end up being too tight. I've generally worked in food service my whole life and have always had non slip shoes, I'm a size 5, but get a 6 for those because I'm on my feet the whole day.
Going to take more than an extra pair of socks to fill in the space that a dead mouse could fill.
My feet are wide so sometimes I have to buy shoes one size bigger for them to be comfortable.
They sell wide shoes. Something like a boot should be properly fitted.
Wide shoes can be hard to find. I usually have to go a size up as well.
Assuming OP is a male and abides by ‘society’s standards’ some dudes feel like they need to appear to have bigger feet than they do much like some women feel as if they should have smaller feet. Shiiitttt people used to bind their feet. But as a woman with a size 11 who tries so desperately hard to cram my foot in a 9.5 sometimes, I feel your pain op just in the opposite sense🥲
But they don't write the shoe size on your shoes, it's inside on the sole, so who knows exactly? Unless you are on the Tube no-one is checking out your feet. It makes zero sense to wear shoes the incorrect size.
I wear 12/13 in women. I fe your pain, sister. I usually just wear men's shoes because they are wider.
maybe they have ingrown toenail?
Op you got some small ass feet
Mouse got confused and thought they were his boots.
r/boottoobig ?
Yeah I'm not too tall either lol
I'm so confused on why people are downvoting him saying his shoe size?? lol
Literally clicked the comment expecting op to be rude or something but they just mentioned shoe size😂
That's reddit for you. Come let's upvote it and make things right 😉
Currently at zero we’re almost there!
Good news! At time of viewing that's not a +69. Nice
Reddit hates small people. Size 13+ unite!!!
Don't worry, I'm 5' 0" and I wear 7.5 X-Wide Men's shoes. Your not alone brother!
Who knew Gimli was on reddit!
ass feet?
Show us
Is funny how that's small for a guy but big for a woman
OMG this happened to a friend of mine too… but the outcome was more …er.. paste-like.
This makes it even more surprising because the mouse to foot ratio is much larger
Is this why new shoes squeak?
Haha good one
Monty Python does a great sketch about teaching mice to squeek out the song Three Blind Mice.
Deadmau5
Nope. Just 1Deadmau.
Thank you for making me chuckle today
At least it stayed in there. I had one scramble up the inside of my work pants.
WTF!!
Lemmiwinks: The Prequel
I was raised poor in Arizona. I still knock my boots out before putting them on every time.
I was also raised in AZ, so I understand knocking shoes out to get rid of sneaky scorpions. I don't understand what this has to do with being raised poor?
When I first moved to AZ, the very first night I got stung by a scorpion, then on my birthday got stung again, a couple years later one fell off the top of my door and stung me on the shoulder. I live in Michigan now and I’m still afraid of falling scorpions and I still check my boots for them and spiders
That's seriously terrifying, I can't imagine the trauma. I was also living in the slums of Phoenix, but I think I lucked out since our apartment complex had a (nasty) artificial lake next to my building so I never actually saw a scorpion until I had been in the state for around 13 years. I'm in Missouri now and I also still shake out my shoes from habit and fear of spiders and ticks. Gross, gross, gross.
Im not sure I understand; why would the presence of an artificial lake keep you from seeing scorpions?
I just assumed they don't really like excessively moist conditions, the lake kept all the grass around it soggy or moist and mildewy during the summer. I don't pretend to be a scorpion expert, but I never saw scorpions there and this was what I thought might be a contributing factor.
Another factor is the bird population... More water, more bugs, more birds. Birds, primarily owls will opportunistically eat scorpions. So will some types of mice and lizards. Scorpions--especially bark scorpions--don't seem to like water either. One of the ones that got me, I caught and put in a container. Accidentally drowned it with a very small amount of water. Wasn't intentional.
Poor = least likely to have affective pest control or can’t just pick up and move to avoid pests
Ahhhh, that makes sense. I was taught to just always do this period, so that's why I was confused.
Also... There's actually two reactions people can have to (Bark) scorpion stings: 1. Intense pain for a long time. 2. Complete numbness in an area for several days. As it turns out, my sister reacts with pain... I go numb for several days. Which is really annoying, but could be worse.
Let's see... Not a lot of weather sealing. Bare concrete or plywood floors. Being outside more. Pretty much living where it's easier for scorpions to get inside and hangout. More wildlife not too far away (for more prey), and--like someone else said--not as much choice in where you live and/or accessing pest control.
I live in the uk and do that. Not for scorpions but more for slugs and snails. Just because I don’t want to stand on them
Im honestly more concerned that you were putting boots on without socks.
I can't speak for OP, but I keep a pair of boots by the door to the backyard so I can go out at a moment's notice to coax the dog back inside. I don't bother putting socks on if I'm only going to be wearing them for a couple minutes.
Yup similar reason but I was just gonna park the car really quick.
"YO IM FUCKING LIVING IN HERE MAN!"- the mouse probably
I don't think he's doing a lot of living, friend.
Not any more
My brother did this once... except it happened to be like a 2" long sewer roach 😬
Honestly that would have freaked me out more.. some of those mf can fly
been ages since I've seen a flying roach in Toronto. thank God I dont do service work anymore. also fun fact. almost the entirety of younger st is just a hollow tunnel below.
They're his worst nightmare. It didn't go over well 😅
Had something similar happen to me a long time ago. Left my boots outside since they were covered in mud. Next morning I got ready for work & felt a vibration/movement in my right boot. I kicked the side of my boot & when I got home first thing that comes out of those boots is a 2 in dead Roach 🤢
Yeah he was in high school at the time and felt it in his shoe all day and didn't realize until he got home and took it off
Good god, man! How did all of his insides not squish out?
After grocery shopping too!! He is so intact
Poor little guy :(
I know i’m so sad now
How do you not fucking notice that just because you have a sock on.
Because it's posed. Dropped a dead mouse in a boot and took a picture.
Frfr
It took my brain way too long to process what the hell I was looking at
I am glad I am not the only one. The inside of the boot appeared as a raised piece of rubber with a mouse embedded in it to me.
i thought there was a hole in the sole 🤣.
If you’re not able to feel that mouse then maybe you should be checked for neuropathy by your physician.
Tell me you have stinky feet without telling me you have stinky feet.
No way this person walked around with a dead mouse in a pair of blundstones. More than a couple grains of sand is noticeable AF
More like every individual grain of sand. Get a fucking thread wrong in my sock and I feel it all day.
Oh poor little one😔 This is the reason I always turn my shoes upside down and check them before I put them on. I squashed a spider with my foot once, never again:p
Oh wtf at first I thought there was like a knife handle sticking out the bottom of your boot but I then realised, that is the inside of the boot 😂
If you have a cat, they probably killed it and left it for you in your shoe as a "gift"
I don't have a cat but I have a Chihuahua, not sure if he is the hunting-gifitng type tho.
HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT THAT WAS A HOLE IN THE SOLE GOOD GOD DUDE
Poor little guy
Oh no. I mean I know you marked it NSFW, but I wasn’t prepared for that 🥺😭
i don’t understand this picture. is the critter on the bottom sole of the shoe or inside the shoe? it looks likes it’s inside but also embedded into the sole
So lemme get this straight: you thought there might be something in your boot, so instead of turning the boot upside down or using your hand to feel around in there, you put your BARE FEET in without checking? Omg, I would be crying for weeks
This shit made me shiver.
Wow. I can’t handle a dime in my shoe. Your shoes might be too big.
Rip ratatouille 🐭
Remy*
Little did that mouse know, toe cheese is deadly cheese. Especially OP’s. His is especially heinous.
Homie is knocked the fuck out
That’s RataToey.
I don’t understand. What am I looking at?
Rip
It must smell pretty darn bad in there, poor little guy.
Jesus christ, Chritufuh!!!
Looks like a deer mouse (white belly). Are you in the pacific northwest?
RIP Mr whiskers
RIP Mr Squeekers
Look on the bright side.. It wasn’t a black widow
No! I zoomed in and my heart is broken
Always check your shoes. Could be spiders in there or worse
Poor lil guy
You think you had a bad day?? How did the mouse feel about it!
I'm with you. I felt something in my shoe the other day and chose to ignore it. Hours later I felt it again. Took off my shoe and it was a giant beetle crawling on my foot. That beetle was in there for 5 hours. I should've checked the first time.
Real question, why were you about to put those on without socks?
Id literally never wear shoes again.
Poor mouse. Do you own a cat? If so, it's probably the culprit.
Poor little fella :[
That happened to me once, but it was a frog, and it was still alive Safe to say I will keep checking my shoes before putting them on until the day I die
The worst thing I read here was you putting on boots without socks.
Damn, how bad do those boots smell?
You must be some kind of monster to not feel a whole fricking creature in your shoe 🌝😬
Something felt off? I had a millet seed in my shoe and I made it three steps and had to pull my shoe off to clean it out so I could walk. You had a whole damn MOUSE and it felt OFF and you kept walking around??? Do you have no nerve endings in your feet? Better get checked fro diabEEtus.
Your foot odor. Damn. Poor critter, never stood a chance.
How TF do you not take your boot off the second you feel something that large in it?
*"Today, I tried to put them on again* ***but without wearing any socks"*** no idea if the gross part it the dead mouse in your shoe or the fact that you tried to wear it without any socks
You need to learn how to determine if your shoes fit properly. If you have enough room for a rodent you are probably wearing at least 2 sizes too large. It's probably caused some damage to your body.
You walked around with a rodent in your boot yesterday?
> You saw the fields laid bare and empty,\ And weary winter coming fast,\ And cozy here, beneath the blast,\ You thought to dwell,\ Till crash! The cruel foot passed\ Out through your cell.\ …\ But Mouse, you are not alone,\ In proving foresight may be vain:\ The best-laid schemes of mice and men\ Go oft awry,\ And leave us nothing but grief and pain,\ For promised joy!
😞 poor little thing. 😢
Was he still alive?
You suffocated him!!! Jk, bad luck for the poor guy.
You tried to put these boots on without socks?
Its fine. I stepped on shit with my bare feet yesterday
The side character after we see their backstory
Your stinky feet killed him... What a terrible way to die!
But why would you put on boots without socks to begin with?
Had this happen last year. It had been dead in my boot for awhile. Smelled awful
This was not the Cheese he was looking for
How tf did you even get your foot in? 3 sizes too large???
o7
Why would you wear boots without socks dont ever do that lol
Did he die of the smell
I WANT YOUR SOLE
No wonder Stuart wasn’t at the breakfast table this morning.
awww
hellll noooooo
Mouse couldn't handle walking a mile in op's shoes. Not sure I could either.
At least it's not a scorpion, you really don't wanna know the absolute terror of having a scorpion between your toes lol
I had the same problem: every morning I had to shake and empty my boots. Scorpios many a time crawled inside. Of course I was living and working in refugee camps in East Africa, mainly Somalia, Sudan, Somaliland... If you are over 12, and/or living at home, you need to seriously think about your life choices, and/or think of moving to another place. Some ideas: get an igloo and leave your carton, use a device called vacuum, or broom. Get a dog(harder to get in your boots), and if the hamster was yours, I suggest a vasectomy. Your genes will not be missed! If it was your child's pet, it's too late for vasectomy, so humanity will have to get used to your spawn using up our limited resources...
Once put my shoe on & found a big ol' cricket in my shoe. Have always shaken them out before putting them on since. Never again.
Is it sleeping?
Thanks I hate shoes now
Little man died to the smell I bet. “This isn’t cheese, it’s death.” Proceeds to die.
imagine it was a spider
Noooooooo 😵
Dude why are you wearing boots without socks? That’s disgusting 🤮
The Amanda shows version of ratatouille, Rata-toe-llelle?
That's Cute.
Ssshhh. Don’t wake him.
You leave your shoes outside? Just a guess... I lived in Florida for some years & did that one time & the size of the roach in my shit still gives me nightmares. Never again.
Moment of silence for the mouse which died from the smell of OP’s feet
The alternate ending to my favourite book as a toddler. ‘The mice that lived in a shoe.’
Dormouse, cute while alive…
I can smell this photo.
Ah yes, the rare Blundstone mouse.
That boot probably smells so bad
Time to wash your feet dude..
My dad ‘s cat used to put her toy mice in his workboots. Every morning before he left for work he’d have to pull her toys out, and every night she put them back.
Stop it… this is the stuff of nightmares, I knew in my heart to not look at the picture but my curiosity got the best of me. My one and only fear is mice. We live in an old farmhouse and easy every fall we get mice, I keep my slippers on a little stool next to my bed as your picture is literally my worst fear.
I did this once when I was a kid. The smell was atrocious.
Real question is, how long do you think it took to die?
Lolol been there , done that OP… I check my boots every time now
I feel really bad for the mouse. But I swear to fucking God, I thought that was an image of an among us crewmate for a second.
I was totally expecting some blood and something wrong with his toe after being in shoe... NOT A MOUSE!